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Awsome! sc flock the first!!!!
 
Saris said:
Were they something you told your parents about?

My son is 7 and says he has headaches everyday, but he never tells us about them unless we ask him if he has a headache, then he'll say he does. When asked why he doesn't tell us when they start he says he forgets.

My daughter used to get them all the time (about 2 years ago), she would complain and go lay down, we were told by her bio mom her doctor told her it was tension headches, but a few months after having an eye surgery to correct a lazy eye the headaches went away.
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I suggest you find your nearest Vision Therapy optometrist and take your son in for evaluation. A regular eye exam may say his eyes are 20-20 or corrected to 20-20 but won't tell you that he has convergence issues which will cause headaches. One telltale sign is reading with head down so they are reading with only one eye. Do not take him to an opthamologist. They are surgeons and fail to recognize that the brain is in charge no matter how structurally 'correct' the physical eye is. I spent most of the first 50 years of my life with vision in only one eye at a time after 3 surgeries for strabismus starting before I was 2. When you can't physically and clearly focus both eyes on an image (for a variety of reasons) your brain shuts one off (to varying degrees, I could switch eyes at will, some people never see out of one eye or randomly switch). Why opthamologists think someone's brain is constantly checking to see if a problem has been resolved is beyond me. The longer ago it gave up on focusing both eyes together, the longer it takes to retrain it to make use of inputs it had long ago shut out.

MrsBachbach said:
No, we didn't hear about the food list, although, I can readily believe it can cause it. I will look into it. She went away at 18, doing her thing, I would see her a couple of times a month. No, she didn't tell me anything about them. I do seem to remember when she was small having one bad episode with a nosebleed, that the doc put down to allergies. She does suffer from allergies during allergy seasons. She constantly gets colds and has sinus problems often. A polyp was found in sinus cavity, but they said it didn't appear to be a problem and removal was optional. She's tight with money so, no removal. Yes, her's are daily and continue without medication. Right now her ob-gyn is thinking hormone related and trying something different on her. I don't think it's working or making a difference although it hasn't been long. I will send her that link. She isn't very good at sticking to diets or keeping track of things in personal life so I don't know how that would go over on her or if she would stick to it. Very independent person and hard to persuade. Her neuro doctor told her they could try botox injections next if the hormonal therpy didn't work. I'm very leery of that suggestion. I'm still wondering if it could be a fungal type cause (very difficult to detect), but she fails to bring that up when speaking with the doctor.
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Botox was one of the more recent things tried on my daughter. She had a second round (even though the first stung like hell for days) because the doctor said it doesn't always work the first time. That is how desperate she is. Didn't help her but I did recently talk with a man at the deli who shares my intolerance of nitrates who said he gets Botox shots every few months and they do help him.


My daughter has Relpax for when she is triggered but she isn't supposed to take it more than twice a week. And she has to take it as soon as she notices the increased pain. My "aura" is an inability to focus on mental tasks. Kind of a problem since I was a software engineer for 34 years. But I know if I get to step 3 or 4 of a task and can't remember what step 1 was, I'm going down. Other times I just get whacked. One day I was in my office at work and a woman walked past the door. I didn't see her, I was just aware in peripheral vision that someone had passed by. I have no idea what perfume she was wearing but I was on the floor 10 seconds later. Didn't recover enough to drive home for 3 hours.

I too have noticed things have turned for the worse in the last decade or so. Everything is now "fragranced" so it "smells good". Febreze to cover some smell with a more potent smell. Car smells like your dog? Cover it with a powerful smell. The "ad men" have everyone thinking if they don't stink, they have a problem. I used to be able to walk down any aisle in the grocery store. Now I have to hold my breath to get to the fragrance free laundry detergent. News for some people: "Clean" does NOT have a smell. If you can smell your freshly laundered clothes, they are NOT clean. And as far as I am concerned the Yankee Candle factories can explode and never be rebuilt. I can not go into a Hallmark store, wouldn't even think of entering a Bath and Bodyworks and move fast while holding my breath if I have to pass by one at the mall. All these "fragrances" combine to make one massive bomb for people with chemical sensitivities. Cow manure may smell bad but it doesn't give you a migraine. Our house is 100% man made fragrance free. You don't even walk into it if you are wearing a fragrance or your clothes smell of anything other than natural odors.

MrsBachBach, you can but offer information to your daughter and hope she acts on it. I went from a migraine or 2 a month to one or 2 a year. I think most people in major pain daily would be willing to try something that costs nothing, doesn't need prior approval from your insurance company, no time off from work for an appointment and has no side effects. This isn't a diet in the traditional concept of "I can't eat this, I will get fat" or "my cholesterol will go high", etc. You just don't eat ANYTHING on the list then start in on your favorite things one at a time and see if it hurts, you will likely know within an hour, usually less in my experience. If she is hardcore into her morning coffee, that will be a tough one to skip but caffeine rebound is a known headache issue. Caffeine opens the blood vessels in your head and when it wears off, they shut down tighter than they were before the caffeine.

Good luck and I really hope she gives it a try.
 

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